ranking one art above the others," wrote artist Henry van de Velde in 1895, articulating a doctrine of art nouveau: art should affect the lives of all people, should enter their homes and influence their furnishings, uniting beauty and utility (2).

Specimens by such exponents of that short-lived but influential style as Victor Horta, Paul Hankar, and Henry van de Velde play key parts in the exhibition, but so too does work from earlier and later schools.

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